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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Woman Hollering Creek.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does author Sandra Cisneros live?
(a) Austin, Texas
(b) Seguin, Texas
(c) Laredo, Texas
(d) San Antonio, Texas

2. What Spanish phrase from the story is translated as “on the other side”?
(a) Tu o Nadie
(b) En el otro lado
(c) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(d) No es bueno para la salud

3. What is the heroine’s relationship to the family whose son she falls in love with in Maria de Nadie?
(a) She has been adopted by them
(b) She works for them
(c) Her family has a rivalry with them
(d) She has robbed them

4. What word from the story refers to a dead body?
(a) Extant
(b) Comrade
(c) Cadaver
(d) Impresario

5. How does the narrator describe Cleofilas’ brothers in the beginning of the story?
(a) Whimsical
(b) Frantic
(c) Clumsy
(d) Ignorant

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, Juan Pedro has a bit of a belly from what?

2. Corin Tellado published more than how many novels in her lifetime?

3. Cleofilas has doubts about her husband’s fidelity when she finds what arranged in the bathroom a different way?

4. What does the name Graciela mean in Spanish?

5. Cleofilas considers her hometown to be “The town of gossips. The town of dust and” what?

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